Dublin's SPRINTS announced their debut album today. Letter To Self will arrive on City Slang Records on January 5, 2024. The garage punk quartet are sharing new track and video, "Up and Comer". which follows previously released stand-alone singles "Adore Adore Adore" and "Literary Mind", both of which appear on Letter To Self. The album is available for pre-order at LINK. SPRINTS has also unveiled a series of European tour dates for 2023, marking the debut of their live show in many new cities.

Formed in 2019, SPRINTS play abrasive punk rock, influenced by the likes of early Pixies, Bahaus, Siouxsie Sioux, King Gizzard, Savages and LCD Soundsystem. Their 2021 EP Manifesto and 2022 EP A Modern Job saw the UK music press becoming enthralled with the band, with a wealth of press support from outlets such as DIY, The Guardian, NME, Loud & Quiet, Dork, and Clash, and an abundance of radio support from Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music.

Singer, guitarist and lead songwriter Karla Chubb says their debut record "is a deeply personal and autobiographical album lyrically and in its key themes, while sonically it explores a space inspired by our love of early 80s gothic, 90s noise rock and more modern influences. It revisits our most vulnerable moments and imbues them with visceral garage-punk. It aims to take the things that are considered inherently negative - feelings of anxiety, anger and rage, and turning them into a positive. Using our experiences to fuel us and pouring them into a positive outlet. It’s cathartic, it’s honest, it’s raw."

Lead single "Up and Comer" confronts imposter syndrome. "It's an invisible narrative that has been constructed by the doubts and negativity I've been fed by others," she explains. "It's a song that takes aim at these ideas, and instead of letting them continue to hold me back, sees me finally break free of the expected, embrace the anger and let it rip."